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EscaroN

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First of, any help is greatly appreciated. I'm running an AMD Athlon XP2500 and I have it OC'd slightly at 11x185. Now I don't know what people are using to measure their temps now days but I'm running MBM, latest version, and I've got two things displaying my CPU temperature, I don't know which one to trust, one reads around 43C at itdle and the other 53C at idle. On load the first goes up to about 50C and the second one all the way up to 70C...I need some help.

BTW, I've got decent cooling in my case, right now the ceonsor inside shows 82F and my CPU is cooled with an SLK-800 and 80mm fan. I'm thinking either way my temps are a little too hot for that heatsink, anyone have any suggestions on which temperature I should trust? Whether it's too high or not? How much more can I OC safely? And should I try reaplying my heatsink with new thermal paste cause I haven't done that in a long time...thnx :)
 
If it helps I just lowered my VCore back to 1.650 and the temps are still the same at load and idle. My BIOS reads 47C at idle so it's in between the two other temps...I'm really confused.
 
EscaroN said:
First of, any help is greatly appreciated. I'm running an AMD Athlon XP2500 and I have it OC'd slightly at 11x185. Now I don't know what people are using to measure their temps now days but I'm running MBM, latest version, and I've got two things displaying my CPU temperature, I don't know which one to trust, one reads around 43C at itdle and the other 53C at idle. On load the first goes up to about 50C and the second one all the way up to 70C...I need some help.

BTW, I've got decent cooling in my case, right now the ceonsor inside shows 82F and my CPU is cooled with an SLK-800 and 80mm fan. I'm thinking either way my temps are a little too hot for that heatsink, anyone have any suggestions on which temperature I should trust? Whether it's too high or not? How much more can I OC safely? And should I try reaplying my heatsink with new thermal paste cause I haven't done that in a long time...thnx :)
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What mainboard you running there, some of them have fairly crappy sensors, and have bios updates to fix the reading...

Here it is in a nut shell, check the following for overheating:

- Is the heatsink correctly installed ?
--> Verify it is correctly installed.

- Is the heatsink filled with dust and crud ?
--> Clean with compressed air in a can.

- Is the heatsink fan operating ?
--> Replace defective fan with similar or better unit.

- Is the heatsink adequate for that application/CPU ?
--> Verify it meet the requirements for the CPU being used.

- Is thermal interface material used between heatsink and cpu ?
--> Verify it is used, and is applied according to the manufacturers guidlines.

- Is the TIM pad cover removed from heatsink before installation, if using supplied TIM pad ?
--> Remove the cover before installation, failure to do so will insulate the cpu from the TIM pad.

- Is there adequate airflow or case ventialation ?
--> Verify airflow, add case fans if required.

- Is the Vcore set higher tha specified by the manufacturer ?
--> Verify the Vcore is set to the manufacturers specification in the mainboards bios.

- Is the temperature read via the internal temperature diode. Is the tremperature read via the socket thermistor ?
--> Temperatures read at the diode can and will be higher than an external reading.

- Is the temperature sensor properly calibrated ?
--> Several board have this problem, check manufacturers bios revision history for calibration fix.

- Outside temperature high ?
--> If the external temperature is high, then the case fans will be drawing in hot air, especially during summer months.
 
Thnx for the suggestions, to answer a couple of questions my case is pretty dusty so I'll clean that. I have the Asus A7N8X mobo and the censor that's reading the highest temps just happens to be called the Diode censor, so I'm guessing that maybe the problem, anyone know the limit for temps on the CPU Diode in a XP2500.
 
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